For some reason I've always visualized the debacle of Microsoft Windows 8 with smiley faces and Venn diagrams. Who knows why. The visual just got stuck in my head. So for this post I wanted to try something a bit more whimsical than usual by capturing that image.

Windows Phone chief Joe Belfiore did an AMA, and there was a question..

Q Hi Mr joe...is there any plans for file managers on WPhone?

A [–]joebelfioreVP, Lead Windows Phone Team[S]: WOO HOO! SOMEONE ASKED THIS QUESTION!! I've been waiting! in fact, I've avoided tweeting on this very topic just for all you redditors. Seriously.

in fact-- you GET A CORTANA T-SHIRT FOR ASKING!! :) (PM me your size and we'll get it to you.)

*** YES *** We are doing a File Manager for WP8.1! I know a LOT of you are looking for this (thanks for the tweets, I've read them all). In fact, I've been running a build of it on two of my phones for the last week or so and it's getting to pretty good shape.

The anonymous author of the fake "Apple earpods will measure heart rate and blood pressure" 'secret':

The worst part is that the story just came out of Apple hiring an expert in making products that are exactly like I described.I'd never seen the patents that Apple filed about the Earbuds.I just made it all up on the shitter…

This might be a little paranoid. But one thing that worries me is with this timing, if I'm close enough to the mark with my guess, is that Apple might think someone they trust is leaking stuff, and someone might get in trouble for it. I made it all up. If I'm close. It's a lucky guess. I'm not vain enough to think that Apple hired someone based on my rumor. It was likely in the pipeline for ages. But it gave false verification to the fake rumor and made things even more complicated.

As I look in on the management console of my big Cisco WLAN, I see at the moment I have 711 detected rogues on my biggest campus. Detection in this case loosly equals:

•Being heard by one or more APs that have been configured to take part in rogue detection•Breaking our threshold of concern (I have set to RSSI of -78)•Being heard within the last few days

Because of where this WLAN sits geographically and the fact that we have thousands of APs (with hundreds participating in rogue detection), our rogue dashboard stays pretty busy. We're in a city, surrounded by hospitals, businesses, and residential neighborhoods.

Google employees who wanted to use Smartsheet had to explain why before Google would allow it, Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader told us. "Users had to say why they couldn't use a Google app," he said. Those employees cited things like the way information is stored and structured in Smartsheets and that Smartsheet allows for date- and time-specific reminders, he said.

Google is known to be reluctant to allow workers to use cloud services so asking employees to prove they need to use an app could be standard practice. Google didn't reply to a request for comment.

Blue Chip hired a video verification company called BrandAds to track the campaign for the mom-related product and find out where the ads were placed. At that December meeting, BrandAds delivered its report, and Blue Chip finally got a peek behind a curtain.

"We looked at this data and my jaw dropped," Ms. VanHeirseele remembers. "And then I felt a little sick to my stomach."

Many of the ads were running in tiny players, 3 inches by 2 inches, on the sites. Some were auto-playing. But disappointment turned to rage when she read the list of domain names where the ads were running; it included pornographic websites. The team opened one site with an especially lewd name and gaped in horror. "Oh my God," some shouted. Others cursed. Ms. VanHeirseele picked up her phone to call the media buyer in a fury.

166m people in the US owned smartphones (68.8% mobile market penetration) during the three months ending in March, up 6% since December. Apple ranked as the top OEM with 41.4% of US smartphone subscribers. Samsung ranked second with 27% market share (up 0.9 percentage points from December), followed by LG with 6.7% (up 0.1 percentage points), Motorola with 6.4% and HTC with 5.4%.

ComScore measures installed base, not the (often misunderstood) "market share". A few points. There are now more Android users than featurephone users (86.6m v 75.3m), though still just ahead of iPhone users (68.7m). About 3m people get a smartphone each month. Of the 1.6m who got an Android phone last month (comparing with the February data, not the data for December in the release) about 0.8m got a Samsung phone; 0.34m got a Motorola; 0.15m got an HTC. Apple increased its installed base from 65.2m to 68.7m between December and March 2014.

Concealed by its halo is the query of "hunger marketing" that will follow Xiaomi and Lei Jun wherever they go. What are the real sale numbers of each version of Xiaomi phone? What will Lei Jun plot in 2014? With these questions, we explored the main mobile phone supply chains in mainland. By interviewing more than 20 employees and former employees of Xiaomi, we obtained some reliable information:

There's an intense race to hit 60m phones per quarter because that means you're in the top five globally.